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Illegal Immigration: The Impact On Wages And Employment Of Black Workers, Vernon Briggs
Illegal Immigration: The Impact On Wages And Employment Of Black Workers, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] Before addressing the specific issue of illegal immigration and its economic effects on black Americans, the broad subject needs to be placed in perspective. No issue has affected the economic well-being of African Americans more that the phenomenon of immigration and its related policy manifestations. Immigration defined the entry experience of the ancestors of most the nation’s contemporary black American community (as slaves who were brought as involuntary immigrants); it placed them disproportionately in the states that today comprise the “South”( at no point in American history has less than half the black population ever lived outside the South); …
Methods Of Analysis Of Illegal Immigration Into The United States, Vernon Briggs
Methods Of Analysis Of Illegal Immigration Into The United States, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"A major barrier to the discussion of the scope and impact of illegal immigration on the American economy has been the inadequacy of existing data. Although data problems are not unique to this topic, the limited availability of macro-data on the size of the annual flows and of the accumulated stock of individuals as well as of micro-data on their influences on selected labor markets has been effectively used to forestall policy reform efforts."
Illegal Immigration: The Impact On Wages And Employment Of Black Workers, Vernon Briggs
Illegal Immigration: The Impact On Wages And Employment Of Black Workers, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] Before addressing the specific issue of illegal immigration and its economic effects on black Americans, the broad subject needs to be placed in perspective. No issue has affected the economic well-being of African Americans more that the phenomenon of immigration and its related policy manifestations. Immigration defined the entry experience of the ancestors of most the nation’s contemporary black American community (as slaves who were brought as involuntary immigrants); it placed them disproportionately in the states that today comprise the “South”( at no point in American history has less than half the black population ever lived outside the South); …
Methods Of Analysis Of Illegal Immigration Into The United States, Vernon Briggs
Methods Of Analysis Of Illegal Immigration Into The United States, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"A major barrier to the discussion of the scope and impact of illegal immigration on the American economy has been the inadequacy of existing data. Although data problems are not unique to this topic, the limited availability of macro-data on the size of the annual flows and of the accumulated stock of individuals as well as of micro-data on their influences on selected labor markets has been effectively used to forestall policy reform efforts."